Lucy Atkins is an award winning British author and journalist. She has written four novels, most recently MAGPIE LANE (2020), and seven non-fiction books, two of which have won national awards. Many of her books are published internationally and her last novel, THE NIGHT VISITOR (2017) has been optioned for television.
Lucy is a tutor on the creative writing Masters degree at Oxford University. She judged the Costa Book Awards and is a book critic for The Sunday Times. She has a background in literary and feature journalism: she has worked at the Times Literary Supplement and has written for UK newspapers including The Guardian, The Times, The Sunday Times and The Telegraph, and many UK magazines.
Lucy has a first class degree in English from Oxford University and was a Fulbright Scholar to the USA where she did an M.A. in English and American literature. She has lived in Boston, Seattle and Philadelphia, and now lives in Oxford, UK, with her family. To get in touch, please go to the Contacts page.
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